Lenovo Heavy Duty Laptops installed as Bus seats

Designed as a part of promotional campaign by Ogilvy Frankfurt, the latest Lenovo Thinkpad Notebooks has been installed in buses and tram shuttles as seating to place as well as attract potential retailers and buyers to the Lenovo Roadshows across Germany. Featuring full metal frame, notebook folding seat gives shockproof hard drive protection and comes integrated with waterproof keypad. Not too sure if it’s comfortable to the butts but the visitors can use the folding seat to surf the net while waiting by railway stations and airports.

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Bamboo Laptop Cooling Deck

No matter how refined or hi-tech notebooks or laptops you use, extended work sessions heat up even the best systems available on the market. Expanding its line of notebook accessories, Macally has come up with two cool looking notebook coolers, Ecofan and Ecofanpro, to keep you and your system cool during those heating work sessions. Finished in bamboo wood, the notebook stands come integrated with a USB powered cooling fan. Both the stands can support any laptop up to 17″, but the $32 Ecofan features a fixed-position stand, while on the other, the $33 Ecofanpro offers adjustable height to suit a variety of users. The bamboo laptop stands not only look cool but also help in sustaining the environment with their green credentials.

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Dual-Screen Laptops are Coming

The rational person inside you says: you don’t need this. The nerd inside you says: you need to spend your 3-month salary on one of these. Regardless of which one you’ll listen to (I’ve already made my choice; food is for the weak), we feel it’s our duty to inform you that there’s more and more proof dual-screen laptops are coming to the market soon.

First, it was the Alaska-based gScreen’s prototype, whose pictures only left us pining for more. Now, the folks at Engadget caught another one of these beauties at the CEATEC conference, a prototype created by Kohjinsha.

While gScreen’s idea of a dual-screen laptop was basically a standard-sized laptop with two screens, Kohjinsha has something much more netbook-like (that’s a lot of hyphens in one sentence, I know) in mind. The prototype in the picture has two 10.1 inch LCDs with either a 1024 x 600 or 1366 x 768 resolution; you can choose between using them both at the same time, or simply hide one screen and use the device as a standard laptop. Inside, there’s an AMD Athlon MV-40 processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory, and it’s all powered by Windows 7 Home Premium. See a video of the device in action over at Engadget.

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